Food & Nutrition

Consumers are considering sustainability more than ever before when it comes to their food and drink purchases, a new poll has found.
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Nearly half of China's consumers want to shop healthier but price and information access are proving to be barriers.
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BrightFarms set up an R&D hub for biotech research and increasing yields thus developing next phase solutions for its indoor farming.
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Climate change is set to put a quarter of global harvests at risk by the end of this century, scientists warn in a new study.
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Just Salad has launched a new 'zero foodprint' menu item with the focus of supporting regenerative agriculture efforts.
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Agtech VC Omnivore is aiming to raise US$150 million to support tech innovations and solutions for Indian farmers.
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SupPlant's $10 million in funding will bring water-saving irrigation tools to more than 500,000 Kenyan farmers.
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Alice Waters makes an impassioned call for eating the slow food way in her new book, 'We Are What We Eat'.
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Researchers say that more needs to be done to stop unhealthy junk food choices for kids to alleviate obesity rates and create healthy habits.
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Everything Food follows a "food as medicine" approach with its healthy meal delivery prescription platform.
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Errol Schweizer has spent decades in the food industry, over 25 years in fact. He has held down many positions, from grill cook to stock clerk to purchasing manager. A native of New York's the Bronx who studied biology and got his…
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Global food prices have risen to decade-high levels, with low-income countries to be most vulnerable, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned. Predominantly in Asia-Pacific and Africa, many of these economies have…
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Researchers have found that people who are vegetarian have a healthier biomarker profile compared to meat-eating folk. The British study’s findings, presented at the recent virtual European Congress on Obesity (ECO), is consistent despite…
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Apeel, the company whose technology slows down the rate of spoilage of fresh fruit, has several big-name partnerships under its belt. Currently, the California food waste fighting startup works with major produce suppliers like Del Monte…
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Responsible chocolate brand Alter Eco is taking the lead in radical transparency, releasing its annual sustainability report to document its environmental and human impact – both good and bad. Being “brutally honest” about failing to…
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NGOs and plant-based companies are now pushing for processed meat, a classified carcinogen under World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, to be included in California’s Proposition 65 list of substances known to cause cancer or…
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Pasta maker Barilla is seeking start-ups to join the fourth cohort of Good Food Makers, its global accelerator that aims to address sustainability, technology and consumer-related challenges, with a focus on founders working on Through…
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A new study of frontline healthcare workers across six countries shows an association between plant-based diets and reduced risk of developing moderate or severe Covid-19. The study also found lower odds with pescatarian diets, though to a…
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In a new report on the investment case for a sustainable food system, analysts say that the plant-based food transition is “inevitable” and will bring about new opportunities for investors and businesses across the food supply chain.…
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Magellan Life Sciences has completed its seed funding round led by Roquette Ventures, the investment arm of the French plant-based ingredient giant. The capital will be used to scale the British startup’s plant protein sweeteners produced…
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Israeli precision nutrition startup DayTwo has raised US$37 million to continue developing its gut microbiome sequencing AI technology that makes dietary recommendations for people with diabetes and other metabolic illnesses. DayTwo says…
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